[SA|ASI] Minimapper

05 Fev 2022, 10:24

Took me more than a week to figure out the damn algorithm that coverts a radar tile's number from one radar map size to another. Maybe I should have paid more attention to math in school, but oh well.

Description:
An ASI script that automatically adapts radar mods, at runtime, to modified radar size , i.e., radar map size in fastman92limitAdjuster_GTASA.ini, e.g. from GTA Mixed:

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; Radar map size (6000)
; This option requires a new set of files if map size is changed!!!
Radar map size = 24000

Requirements:

Mod Loader
A filesystem that supports hard links.

Usage:
Note: This mod has no effect if radar size is not changed, so it is always recommended to post radar mods using this mod from now on.

Download this mod from the link below.
Extract the archive inside a folder inside Mod Loader.
Rename the ASI file and folder to something unique. The renamed ASI file and folder must have the same name.
Download a radar mod and take the radar*.txd files from it.
Go inside the renamed folder. There is a folder named "..radar". Go inside this folder and put the taken files there.
Go up one folder and open the configuration file named "config.ini". There, under the section , is a key named size, which is 12 by default. Change it to the radar size value for what this radar mod is originally adapted to. Here is the formula: size = radar map size / 500. Note: it is 12 for mods made for the default radar size, so you rarely need to change it (even delete the file), unless it's like 48 for GTA Mixed.
Now, whenever you launch the game, this mod will create a folder named ".radar" inside the same folder as the configuration file. Then, all of the radar mod's files from the other folder will be hard-linked to this folder with adapted names, and this folder will be renamed to "radar", which will allow Mod Loader to load these files.

Download:

1000

Source:

GitHub

Credits:
Author(s):

HzanRsxa2959

Used:

05 Fev 2022, 11:20

What is the advantage of this compared to using Radar Creator to adapt it? Your method is much more difficult and time consuming,
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05 Fev 2022, 12:38

Junior_Djjr escreveu: ↑
05 Fev 2022, 11:20
What is the advantage of this compared to using Radar Creator to adapt it? Your method is much more difficult and time consuming,

My own comparison of the two:

GTA Radar Creator:

Very easy to use compared to Minimapper: +2
Needs to be adapted again every time the radar map size changes: -1

Minimapper:

Automatically adapted to all changes in radar map size: +1
Portable and independent: +1
Difficult to use compared to GTA Radar Creator: -1

I guess the net effort is the same, so yeah, I think it's just a matter of preference.
I mean, I prefer Minimapper; that's why I made it in the first place, lol.

05 Fev 2022, 16:14

So the advantage is that a total conversion mod can update the radar and map size without needing to recompile the radar mod you use? Well...

So far there have only been 2 mods of total conversion that uses large radar map and have been updated the radar design, are: GTA Mixed (adding bridges, but not useful for Minimaper as the bridge is connected to the original map, so you need to edit the original png radar), and GTA Underground ( which is also not useful as it doesn't support ModLoader). SAxVCxLC may update in the future, possible but unlikely.

You are a good programmer, but you spent a week on something like this, you should focus on more useful and new projects.

05 Fev 2022, 19:14

Junior_Djjr escreveu: ↑
05 Fev 2022, 16:14
You are a good programmer, but you spent a week on something like this, you should focus on more useful and new projects.

Thank you, I appreciate both the compliment and the advice. And you're right: this one was a pain to do, so IDK why I still did it- the gain wasn't worth the effort, too. I will keep your advice in mind for the future. So yeah, I'm back to working on AutoID3000 in the meantime.

30 Set 2022, 10:35

HzanRsxa2959 escreveu: ↑
05 Fev 2022, 10:24
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; Radar map size (6000)
; This option requires a new set of files if map size is changed!!!
Radar map size = 24000

This can be used for example in SAMP 0.3dl? of the servers that have mappings of liberty city and vice city, which are outside the normal map of GTA San Andreas, is there a way to adapt the vice city radar to that area outside the map?

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